Of course Disney would realize many economies of scale by doing this. It could lay off most of DC's managers, operate everything out of the same HQ, print everything with the same presses, film all the movies and television shows with the same crews, and so on. If I were working for Disney, I'd take a hard look at it.

Disney would have a better chance of buying WB/Time Warner altogether, than getting DC out of their hands.

Maybe. There's no way of knowing unless you study the books. But Disney should look at doing it. Buying Time Warner itself might give them enough economies of scale to make doing that feasible too.

I don't think that buying just DC Comics is infeasible though. All it would take to get that ball rolling is a flop movie or two. Dan DiDio said just a few weeks ago that the business of print comics is flirting with extinction. The obvious response to that is industry consolidation.

Remember that Time Warner sold WCW to the WWE. Something like that could happen here.

(1) We don't need these entertainment conglomerates to get any bigger than they already are.
(2) The healthy competition between DC and Marvel over the decades has helped keep the superhero genre alive.

(1) We don't need these entertainment conglomerates to get any bigger than they already are.
(2) The healthy competition between DC and Marvel over the decades has helped keep the superhero genre alive.

You might be right about that. But if Disney thinks it can make more money with DC Entertainment than Time Warner is making, then from a corporate viewpoint, the rational move would be to make the purchase.

Disney has already ruined half my childhood. They can stay the *** away from DC Comics.

Funny story, back when the Superman rights came up around the time Smallville was first on the air... Joe Q tried to work with the people fighting for the rights of Superman and claimed Marvel would give them more money to produce the Smallville comic if they allowed it.

DC Comics are fine where they're at. Presently... they're doing BETTER than Marvel [at least as far as the superhero genre goes]. Just because Disney has made a few good superhero movies, that won't go on forever. I bet as soon as Robert Downey Jr is out of the picture it goes downhill FAST. Remember how good the first Mortal Kombat film was? Remember the second one that recast everyone but Liu Kang? Yeah... that one didn't do near as well...

Disney would have to make a calculation as to how much DC Entertainment is worth to Time Warner, and how much it would be worth to Disney. If it would be worth more to Disney, then Disney could offer a bit more for it than it's worth to Time Warner.

Which of course is what they did when they bought Star Wars for $4 billion.

At this point no. After BVS & Suicide Squad were released I would have said yes, but with Wonder Woman being a very good film & a smashing hit, I'm very interested to see how the likes of Aquaman will turn out.

That aside I'm not sure Disney is interested in DC, since they'd probably have to purchase them "bigly" from Warners, who likely aren't interested in giving up the DC brand at this point anyway.

I think Bongo should purchase WB entirely. They've got the money for it.

Since I have no idea who Bongo is, and since this is not simply a matter of Disney having the money to do it (which it does), I don't think that's a serious remark.

But there are only two major comics companies in the United States, so the idea of their merging is very far from foolish, even though reaching an agreement about it is not assured. The comics industry looks very much like a natural monopoly. Any economist would tell you that.